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Newsmax host Carl Higbie went on a tirade on Friday after former President Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury the day before.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to cover up extramarital affairs. Trump was concerned the affairs would come to light and harm his presidential aspirations. The Republican freakout has been swift if not predictable. Despite their outrage and indignation, some conservatives insist that being a convicted felon will help Trump’s chances of returning to the White House in November’s election.

During Friday’s edition of Frontline on Newsmax, Higbie demanded congressional Republicans drop everything and go after those involved in Trump’s prosecution.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

Sup, dork - liberal with a bunch of guns here. I’ve been training since Duck Hunt and can shoot the cap off a trans label Budweiser from 100 yards with a .22.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking Trumpers have a monopoly on gun powder.

✌️

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just a reminder that the Nazi party regularly said shit like this leading up to the Holocaust. The idea was to make it seem like, to the public, that they have been regularly giving warnings to and negotiating with Jewish people about their need to relocate out of Germany and give up their property, and that the refusal to cooperate was going to force Germany to use violence.

It was all propaganda. The intent from the beginning was to commit violence.

All of the people Republicans are mad out right now - queer people, educators, health care professionals, and social workers to name a few - are all being given "warnings", with increasingly violent rhetoric attach, priming their base to eventually resort to violence when those targets "refuse to cooperate". Really what they mean is "Never do anything that disagrees with our far right agenda, or we will murder you".

The Fascists want a civil war. In their fantasy it plays out like The Purge where the big strong patriots destroy all the scary black bloc antifa terrorists and usher in a new era. The reality is that it would just result in a domestic crisis that on top of traumatizing the general public, would destabilize the country enough to permanently destroy our place in the world as a superpower.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

would destabilize the country enough to permanently destroy our place in the world as a superpower.

Putin: Oh rly ... how did you say we do that again...?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If they don't like it, they can just leave. That's what they've been saying for decades, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That only applies to POC, non-xtians, liberals, people smarter than the average winger, uppity women, gayz that are not in the closet, etc...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

When the purges in Russia, China, and N. Korea were going on, the only way to survive was to become the biggest ass-kisser. Imagine how they felt. Does that feel familiar, MAGA?

Liz Cheney has you pegged for what you have let yourself become.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

What people in cities? The people that carried out the trial on Felonius Lump?

Also, just where the fuck does Higbie live? Most Americans live in metro areas; is he one of the 17% that don't?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Does he even know who the hell we are? I'm a new Yorker and I've seen through Trump's facade for decades. Why are people so devoted to this conman?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

because he says they shit they wish they could.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Shows that there are enough people so desparate to be lead, that they'll follow anyone, as long as they are confident and unapologetic. And then there are the grifters that'll do anything for clout and money. Trump supporters have shown themselves to be naive and easily manipilated, so those grifters flock to pander to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Because they love the taste of diaper residue.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Those people are devoted to the letter R. Trump is living proof that you can actively try to be the most vile person alive and still get republican support.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

So he's saying that because a criminal was tried and convicted for his crimes, they somehow have to take action to defend said criminal even though said criminal most definitely did a whole bunch of crime that he hasn't even been tried for yet.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

At this point in my life, if it comes down it, I'd rather have a cyanide capsule than a gun. I'm too tired to go play leaded candy cosplay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Fuck it, take some of these chuds down before you go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Who needs guns? Your car is a 2 ton weapon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Oh ...you want to fight a war for this?"

Gestures to the burning globe of death and dying.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol joke's on you asshole, recently more people raised in the suburbs and country have moved to cities, and more minorities and leftists own guns. It's not 1980 anymore, good luck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Estimates seem to be 83% of the country lives in an urban area. It's expect to be 90% by 2050. The dipshits still seem to think that flyover regions somehow contain multitudes and constitute a majority.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's worth noting that the census definition of "urban" is almost completely detached from what most people would associate that term to mean.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Newsmax: Don't go into the cities! They're warzones and you'll get shot...

Also Newsmax: We have all the guns too!

These people are so detached from reality.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

they don't care about reality at all.

they care about fantasy.

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